Improvement in fire-place fenders



` fUNITEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

`onAELEs o. ALeEo, or PITTsBnEo., PENNSYLVANIA.

l IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-P'LACE-FENDERS.

" Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,265, dated May 30, 1871.

To all whom it may concern:

. Be it known that I, GHAELEs C. ALGEo, of

" Pittsburg, in -the county of Allegheny and State of Bennsylvania, have invented a new e and Improved Fire-Place Fender; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will ena- `ble others skilled in the artto make and use the same, referencebei-n g had to theaccompanying y drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention "relates to improvements in the application of casters or rollers to hre-grate lfendersfor rolling` over theiioorwhen it is desir-able to move them `to save the labor of lifting them; and it consists in extending the `Shanks or ears of thecasters up through ears or anges extendingxfrorn the inner wall of the base of the fender, and` securing them by nuts screwed on above the said ears or flanges to .y `vprevent the` castersfroni dropping out when lifted.

e Figure iis a plan of the bottom of a fender with the casters'attachedv according to my imy provements, and FigaZ is a section of the same on the lineaI m of Fig.` 1. j

Similar letters of reference indicate corre- 'spending parts.

A is the cast-iron fender, which is of ordinary construction, except that it is provided with ears B projecting from the inner Wall of the base of the fender. `C is the caster, which I propose to attach to the fender by fitting the l'shank or spindle D in the ears so as to extend up through it and receive a screw-threaded nut, E, at the top, which is screw-threaded for the purpose. The nut is so fitted on as not to prevent the caster fromturning. It

may have a washer between it and the upper side of the ear.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new Aand desire to secure by Letters Patent- The attachment of the casters to the fender A by the screw-threaded shanks extending upv through the ears, and the nuts screwed on the Shanks above the ears, all substantially as specified.

Witnesses: y CHARLES C. ALGEO.

J. H. HILLERMAN, W. J. PERRY. 

